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Survivor's Guide to 2007: Security: Page 5 of 9

Who Are You Again?

As any old-school network guy will tell you, it's a losing proposition to manage individual users. Of course, you'll always have that manager who insists that everyone on her team needs different rights, and normal growth and change within the enterprise make group-level management problematic as well. Fortunately, in 2007, IdM (identity management) vendors are shifting focus from the individual to the group, and we expect to see sound solutions emerge that will help all of us manage a sane balance.

Both old and new companies, including Novell and Applied Identity, are driving the IdM market, with CA, Microsoft, Oracle, and Sun Microsystems sucking up smaller companies in order to add to their portfolios.